ajeansnz 8 Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 It would be great to have the video stream selectable - same as is audio now. It appears to be getting more common to embed alternative streams (such as 1080p) alongside a UHD stream particularly within MKV's containers. This feature would allow us to select a 'best stream' for a given device, an example recently being my Samsung TV not handling 60fps which was the default stream in the MKV. A 1080p was available also but could not be selected, so my server had to transcode a large UHD high-framerate source file - pretty chunky cpu work which it struggled with and was not necessary. 3
PenkethBoy 2068 Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 Ok use MKVToolmix to extract the second video track and have it as a multi version movie Emby currently does not support multiple video streams in the same file.
ajeansnz 8 Posted September 7, 2020 Author Posted September 7, 2020 Actually exactly what I’ve done - and transcoded 60fps back to UHD 30fps. Yes, Emby doesn’t support it - which is why this post is in feature requests :) I’ll head over to bug fixes later and point out it doesn’t appear to be honouring the ‘default’ flag to pick up the correct video stream - it seems to just grab the first stream irrespective.
Happy2Play 9781 Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, ajeansnz said: I’ll head over to bug fixes later and point out it doesn’t appear to be honouring the ‘default’ flag to pick up the correct video stream - it seems to just grab the first stream irrespective. There is not a bug, Emby currently does not support multi-track video files. Currently you have to create two files, one with each video track. Old request. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/33800-select-video-stream-from-multi-video-mkv/ Edited September 7, 2020 by Happy2Play 2
ajeansnz 8 Posted September 7, 2020 Author Posted September 7, 2020 Ah - I searched to check but didn’t find it. Back in 2017! I think we’ll see more of multiple video streams - and I get @Luke’s comment on keeping it simple. However with 8k, 4k, 1080 and multiple variations particularly frame rate now studios are pushing boundaries, I suspect we’ll see more of these MKVs. Perhaps worth a reconsider. 2
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